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The Revelation of Ireland 1995-2020
Diarmaid Ferriter
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THE NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 An Irish Times Book of the Year 2024 'Ferriter tells the latest chapter in Ireland's story with authority and insight, deftly weaving together economic and political upheavals with equally tumultuous societal and cultural shifts' Financial Times 'Forensic and insightful... A major achievement. Ferriter delivers his material with the authority and conviction of a born teacher' Irish Independent Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about abortion, the status of women and same-sex marriage underlined the scale of the transformation. The new diversity of the population and literary and musical prowess also revealed a country experiencing rapid alteration. The road to peace - that saw an end to war in Northern Ireland and culminated in the first visit to southern Ireland of a reigning British monarch in 100 years - illuminated the new Anglo-Irish dynamic. Explosive revelations about deep betrayals from the past destroyed the credibility of the traditionally powerful Catholic Church. And in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Ireland rebounded and rebuilt to great success, but remained plagued by health and housing failures. Economic recovery, the end of civil war politics, ever closer European involvement and Anglo-Irish highs were followed by Brexit lows and increasing talk of Irish unity. There is much to open people's eyes in this riveting account of contemporary Ireland. As the Republic enters its second century of independence, and the North continues to grapple with the legacy of the Troubles, Diarmaid Ferriter makes historical sense of post-1990s Ireland, and what lies in the darkest corners of its archives.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Profile Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781800810945
SKU
9781800810945
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Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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99-1
About Diarmaid Ferriter
Diarmaid Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. His previous books include The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004), Occasions of Sin (2009), Ambiguous Republic (2012), A Nation and not a Rabble (2015), On The Edge (2018), Between Two Hells (2021) and the international bestseller The Border (2019), all published by Profile Books. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and television and a columnist for the Irish Times. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2019.
Reviews for The Revelation of Ireland 1995-2020
Sets the bar high for good writing and scholarship
Financial Times
An excellent account of Ireland's recent history
Independent, Books of the Month, September 2024
Ferriter's impressionistic literary style... is reminiscent of Annie Ernaux, and is highly effective at capturing the mentality and feel of a time. The breadth of his reading is extraordinary
Irish Times
A monumental analysis of a most mouvementé period in Irish history... Ferriter is a serious historian and his researches are oceanic
Sunday Times
Realistic yet hopeful, Ferriter is a fine chronicler not just of Ireland, but of writing about Ireland too
Observer
Ferriter tells the latest chapter in Ireland's story with authority and insight, deftly weaving together economic and political upheavals with equally tumultuous societal and cultural shifts
Financial Times
A remarkable book ... Ferriter writes about as history events that are still relatively close in time and keenly felt. It is a tour de force.
Church Times
Anybody who cares about Ireland as much as Ferriter clearly does will be consulting this landmark publication for many years to come.
Irish Independent, Best Books of 2024
No one could be better-informed, more judiciously-minded or more engaging to read than Ferriter.
Belfast Telegraph
A punchy, opinionated portrait of Ireland in the last 30 years... There is no better guide than Diarmaid Ferriter
Herald
Forensic and insightful... A major achievement. Ferriter delivers his material with the authority and conviction of a born teacher
Irish Independent
What makes Diarmaid Ferriter such a compelling and readable historian is not just his deep understanding of the past but how that understanding makes sense of the present
Irish Examiner
A judicious assessment of recent Irish developments
Sunday Telegraph
Ferriter's strengths are the thoroughness of his research and his ability to compile a coherent case... his analysis here is nuanced [and] the writing as fluent as ever
Literary Review
Diarmaid Ferriter currently carries the flag for the historian-as-commentator, and does it with considerable élan... Delivered in rapid-fire style ... Ferriter maintains a beady eye on the challenges of writing contemporary history at a time when the sources of knowledge and record are themselves changing exponentially.
Spectator
Provides sterling analysis... Among Ferriter's assets as an analyst and a historian is his flair for literary allusion.
The TLS
Praise for Diarmaid Ferriter: 'Ferriter is the outstanding Irish historian of our time: robust, intellectually sophisticated and a master of the sources
Prospect
Ferriter's work is a judicious mixture of the serious and the hilarious, the comic and the tragic
Literary Review
Ferriter is interested above all in the sources, what is preserved and what is forgotten and the oblique shafts of light which they cast on a disputed history
Spectator
[Ferriter] brings considerable acumen and authority... among his assets as an analyst and a historian is his flair for literary allusion. [He] provides a sterling analysis of the ins and outs of the peace negotiations [and] doesn't shy away from the disastrous policies and outcomes
Times Literary Supplement
Financial Times
An excellent account of Ireland's recent history
Independent, Books of the Month, September 2024
Ferriter's impressionistic literary style... is reminiscent of Annie Ernaux, and is highly effective at capturing the mentality and feel of a time. The breadth of his reading is extraordinary
Irish Times
A monumental analysis of a most mouvementé period in Irish history... Ferriter is a serious historian and his researches are oceanic
Sunday Times
Realistic yet hopeful, Ferriter is a fine chronicler not just of Ireland, but of writing about Ireland too
Observer
Ferriter tells the latest chapter in Ireland's story with authority and insight, deftly weaving together economic and political upheavals with equally tumultuous societal and cultural shifts
Financial Times
A remarkable book ... Ferriter writes about as history events that are still relatively close in time and keenly felt. It is a tour de force.
Church Times
Anybody who cares about Ireland as much as Ferriter clearly does will be consulting this landmark publication for many years to come.
Irish Independent, Best Books of 2024
No one could be better-informed, more judiciously-minded or more engaging to read than Ferriter.
Belfast Telegraph
A punchy, opinionated portrait of Ireland in the last 30 years... There is no better guide than Diarmaid Ferriter
Herald
Forensic and insightful... A major achievement. Ferriter delivers his material with the authority and conviction of a born teacher
Irish Independent
What makes Diarmaid Ferriter such a compelling and readable historian is not just his deep understanding of the past but how that understanding makes sense of the present
Irish Examiner
A judicious assessment of recent Irish developments
Sunday Telegraph
Ferriter's strengths are the thoroughness of his research and his ability to compile a coherent case... his analysis here is nuanced [and] the writing as fluent as ever
Literary Review
Diarmaid Ferriter currently carries the flag for the historian-as-commentator, and does it with considerable élan... Delivered in rapid-fire style ... Ferriter maintains a beady eye on the challenges of writing contemporary history at a time when the sources of knowledge and record are themselves changing exponentially.
Spectator
Provides sterling analysis... Among Ferriter's assets as an analyst and a historian is his flair for literary allusion.
The TLS
Praise for Diarmaid Ferriter: 'Ferriter is the outstanding Irish historian of our time: robust, intellectually sophisticated and a master of the sources
Prospect
Ferriter's work is a judicious mixture of the serious and the hilarious, the comic and the tragic
Literary Review
Ferriter is interested above all in the sources, what is preserved and what is forgotten and the oblique shafts of light which they cast on a disputed history
Spectator
[Ferriter] brings considerable acumen and authority... among his assets as an analyst and a historian is his flair for literary allusion. [He] provides a sterling analysis of the ins and outs of the peace negotiations [and] doesn't shy away from the disastrous policies and outcomes
Times Literary Supplement